Why teens are complex and as we, the parents, to find them the right way. In this topic, I try to understand and give parents a ground for reflection and understanding Svetlana Roiz - a well-known children's family psychologist and author of books and training programs on children's family psychology.
On his page on facebook Svetlana picked up information from various sources that explain much and help to understand how the adolescent brain, and why they are what they are. Next site kolobok Here is the text of the author
"The brain of a teenager. In this material - quotes about adolescent brain development that have been copied from different sources. Link to a wonderful performance at the TED Sarah-Jayne Blakemore of the secrets of the brain during adolescence link on the text of an academic lecture on the brain of adolescents, a reference to several articles and a list of recommended literature.
Motto: "For example, almost all the abnormal features of the brain in schizophrenia resemble normal adolescence, but infantrymen entered too far changes"
* The most important part of the brain called the cortex. it takes place the process of thinking. Bark processes information about what we see, hear, feel and sniff. Under it are layers that have to deal with more fundamental things - hunger, thirst, sex and emotions. You use the bark, even when reading these lines.
* An important part of the brain, called the cortex adjacent to the prefrontal cortex - is responsible for the processes that underlie the teenage problems, decision-making, adherence to the rules and understanding the consequences of their actions. This region is described as the abode of the mind. If we voice in my head was, that would be turned on and said, "Hmm m... let's just stop and think a bit before jumping out of here ...", he would have lived it in the prefrontal cortex. This part of the brain responsible for such things as learning the rules, understanding of consequences, working memory, and perception of emotions.
Adolescent prefrontal cortex is not working at full strength, not fully connected to the neighboring departments as long as the person is fulfilled about twenty years
* The corpus callosum - a large bundle of fibers - information highway connecting the left and right hemispheres of the brain, consists almost entirely of white matter. This is another difficulty that teenagers have to deal with. While in adult high-speed connection between the hemispheres of the brain, in adolescents these connections are very slow. We can climb mental web pages, and they are loaded almost instantly, and teenagers have to wait for the download "site" for much longer.
(When we think that our children are "blunt" - they are not blunt, and their corpus callosum. :-))
* The next important part of the brain - the amygdala or amygdala (amygdala). It is responsible for intuition and emotion - does not cause emotions and handle the resulting emotional experience. Tonsils play a key role in recognizing other people's emotions and allow to decode facial expressions, so that we can understand, these people are happy, sad, angry or frightened. they also play an important role in emotional reactions and behavior in stressful situations. We need, for example, to "know" that they feel around to monitor our behavior and understand what is happening around.
Especially interesting is that for the proper recognition of emotions of others is important to the interaction or cooperation between the tonsils and the prefrontal cortex of the brain.
* The temporary mismatch in the development of different parts of the brain considered one of the main causes of conflict, confusion and contradiction in the mind of a teenager. At the time, as your child's emotions are at their peak, his brain is not yet developed enough to plan ahead, to distinguish between good and evil, or foresee the consequences. T. e. amygdala serves extreme emotions and impulses of a teenager, but the PFC (prefrontal cortex) development is not enough to guide them in the right direction. As an example, imagine that your right leg is running, and the left can not even move
The ability of adolescents to recognize other people's emotions are still developing and they tend to make wrong conclusions. In addition, they seek to respond, using the emotional centers, and not listening to the prefrontal cortex, which helps to make rational, informed decisions.
* White matter - it is the myelin, a fatty substance that protects nerve cells. Myelin performs the same function as the plastic insulation of the cable, which prevents the leakage current from the wire. Nerve impulses travel along the nerve cells in much the same way as the current through the wires. The presence of myelin significantly increases the efficiency of transmission of nerve impulses of the brain. In white matter teens are still being formed, and the process ends only to the age of thirty.
* Raise teenager school in the morning - a test for many parents.It is not laziness. Vsemu- time to blame hormones. Blood filled teen sex hormones, growth hormones and stress hormones. Sex hormones (estrogen and testosterone) act in a part of the brain that controls the production of special material called "serotonin". Serotonin promotes good mood and affects hormones controlled biological clock. Continuous overabundance of hormones reverses the biological clock teen upside down, so they do not sleep all night and want to sleep during the day. They are not as lazy as often suffer from hormonal "hangover".
* Brain Plasticity makes adolescence a dangerous and at the same time to open a lot of opportunities. Used neural connections grow and become stronger. Unused - are forced out. In practice, this means that young people are improved in the things which give a lot of time.
1. Wonderful performance at the TED Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: Secrets of the brain during adolescence:
https://www.ted.com/…/sarah_jayne_blakemore_the…/transcript…
2. Brains and behavior of adolescents (rationality versus irrationality) A. A. Alekseev
https://developpsy.ru/…/mozg_i_povedenie_podrostka_r…/1-1-0-8
3. About age stages of brain maturation https://hsp-portal.com/…/o-vozrastnyh-etapah-sozrevaniya-mo…/
Recommended books:
John Gottman - Emotional Intelligence child
John Arden - The Taming of the amygdala
Amy Banks - On the same wavelength
M. Faber - How to talk to young people listened
Marshall Rosenberg - Language of Life
(For psychologists) -E.Emelyanova - psychological problems of modern teenagers
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